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CHARLES J. VVOOLSON, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.:

HINGE FOR STOVE-DOORS, 8w.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 8,814, dated March 16, 1852.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. Woonson,

of Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Hanging the Doors of Stoves and Grates; and I hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof. I

The nature of my invention consists in an improved mode of arranging the front and doors of a stove or grate in a practical and simple manner, so that the advantages of an open or of a close stove may be enjoyed, while the beauty and convenience is in either case presenrved. To effect this object, I hang the door, or doors, upon the outer and back side edge of the front of the stove, by a double or compound hinge, formed. by introducing an arm or supporter, by means of which the door may be swung from the opening in the front of the fire-place, which it is made to close, entirely away from the front, and around to the side of the stove, where it folds into place, as seen at A in the drawing. The arm is attached to the front of the stove by lugs or ears upon the backside, as seen at D, D, in the drawings. The arm is seen at C, in the drawing, and the door at B, and the attachment between them at E, E, the lugs or ears and working part of the hinge being concealed from view in front of the stove, both when the doors are open and when closed, as seen at H, H, in the drawing, as well as at K, K. The upright portion of the arm fits into and forms part of the front when the door is closed, as

seen at F, F, in the drawing. When the door is opened, the front edge'of the same falls into and fills the opening in the front left by the turning out of the upright portion of the hinge, as seen at .G, G, in the drawing.

One, two, or more doors may be'used in closing the front by my mode, as the size of the stove, or convenience may require; or this mode of closing a portion of the front may be used in combination with a sliding register, as seen in the drawings and model, or such other manner of closing part. of the front as may be desirable.

It will be seen that by this improvement I succeed infurnishing an open or a close stove at Willby a simple and effectual arrangement of frontdoor and binge, whereby all the unsightly appearances usually seen of hinges, soot, ashes, &c., are efi'ectually concealed from view.

hat I claim as my invention, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is

The connecting and hanging of the door, or doors, upon the fronts of stoves or grates, so that they may be opened or closed with out marring the beauty, or aifectingthe convenience'of the same, in either case, or eX- posing to view the hinges or inside of the door, as described.

CHARLES VJ. WOOLSON.

Witnesses:

MOORE MOKEE, V JAS. D. CLEVELAND. 

